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'''Augusta''' can mean:
==Augusta as a place name==
Augusta, a feminine form of the name of the [[Roman Emperors|Roman Emperor]] [[Augustus]], is also part of the original [[Latin]] names of many ancient places. As populations spread, they took the names with them.
===In Australia===
*[[Augusta, Western Australia]]
*[[Port Augusta, South Australia]]
*[[Shire of Augusta-Margaret River]]
===In Canada===
*[[Augusta, Ontario]]
*[[North Augusta, Ontario]]
*[[South Augusta, Ontario]]
===In Europe===
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*[[Paphos]], Cyprus
*[[Augusta (Italy)]], Sicily
*Historical name for the Croatian island [[Lastovo]]
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*[[Augusta Treverorum]]: Trier, Germany
*[[Augusta Vindelicorum]]: Augsburg, Germany
*[[Augusta Perusia]]: [[Perugia]], Italy
*[[Augusta Praetoria Salassorum]]: Aosta, Italy
*[[Augusta Taurinorum]]: Turin, Italy
*[[Augusta Raurica]]: Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
*[[Augusta Traiana]]: [[Stara Zagora]], Bulgaria
*[[Augusta Suessionum]]: [[Soissons]], France
*[[Augusta Viromanduorum]]: [[Saint-Quentin]], France
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*[[Bracara Augusta]]: Braga, Portugal
*[[Emerita Augusta]]: Mérida, Spain
*[[Caesar Augusta]]: [[Zaragoza]], Spain
===In the United States of America===
*[[Augusta, Arkansas]]
*[[Augusta, Georgia]]
**[[Augusta National Golf Club]], home of The Masters Tournament
*[[Augusta, Illinois]]
*[[Augusta, Kansas]]
*[[Augusta, Kentucky]]
*[[Augusta, Maine]] (capital city of Maine)
*[[Augusta, Michigan]]
*[[Augusta, Missouri]]
*[[Augusta, Montana]]
*[[Augusta, New York]]
*[[Augusta, New Jersey]]
*[[North Augusta, South Carolina]]
*[[Augusta, West Virginia]]
*[[Augusta, Wisconsin]]
*[[Augusta County, Virginia]]
*[[Augusta Township, Michigan]]
*[[Augusta Township, Minnesota]]
==Augusta as a personal name==
* [[Augusta of Saxe-Weimar]] (1811–1890), German Empress
* [[Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein]] (1858-1921), German Empress
* [[Augusta of Denmark]] (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
* [[Augusta of Cambridge]] (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
* [[Augusta of Saxe-Gotha]] (1719-1772), later Princess of Wales
* [[Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales]] (1737-1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
* [[Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom]] (1768-1840)
* [[Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel]] (1797-1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
* "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel ''[[The Richleighs of Tantamount]]''
* [[Augusta (honorific)]]: bestowed on females of the Imperial dynasties of Ancient Rome
* [[Josef Augusta]], a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
* [[Josef Augusta (ice hockey coach)|Josef Augusta]], a Czech ice hockey player and coach
* [[Patrik Augusta]], a Czech ice hockey player
==Other meanings of Augusta==
*[[Augusta (honorific)]], a title used for the Empresses of the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and [[Byzantine Empire]]s.
*[[Augusta (plant)]]
*[[Augusta (beer)]], from [[Germany]]
* ''[[Historia Augusta]]'', the Latin name of ''Augustan History'', a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman Emperors of the 1st and 2nd century.
*[[Augusta (spider)]] is a spider genus ([[Araneidae]])
*[[Augusta (comic)|''Augusta'' (comic)]], a long-running [[comic strip]] by [[Angus McGill]] and [[Dominic Poelsma]]
* Augusta (band), a classical folk rock band from Toronto, Canada.
* [[Augusta (cigar)]], a hard to find brand of cigar, manufactured in Brazil.
* [[Augusta Heritage Festival]], an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
==See also==
* [[Agusta]], the Italian helicopter manufacturer
* [[Special:Allpages/Augusta]]
* [[List of Latin place names in Europe]]
* {{USS|Augusta}}, U.S. Navy ships named ''Augusta''
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